Shaping the Future of the Free Desktop

September 23rd to 30th 2006, Dublin,
Ireland

aKademy 2006

aKademy is the annual meeting of the KDE
community. This year it will be held at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. The event will
span nine days and includes an exciting program of talks and presentations by
outstanding KDE developers, joint development, bug-fixing & coding sessions,
workshops for all KDE contributors, and design, usability and polishing work.

Sponsors

aKademy will be opened by the two-day KDE Contributors Conference, followed
by the general assembly of the KDE e.V. and an
intensive week of developing,
discussing and meeting people.

aKademy 2006 will be focused on:

KDE 4. KDE's upcoming major release, KDE 4, is
under heavy development. aKademy provides the opportunity to get together in
person to
discuss and hack on the core technologies of the next generation desktop. To
show the results achieved at aKademy there will be a technical preview release
directly after the event.

Desktop Standards and Cross-Project Collaboration. The KDE project is
highly committed to open standards and cross-project collaboration. At aKademy
there will be presentations, discussions and coding in relation to this
topic. We are happy to welcome members of
other desktop-related communities to take part in creating a common free desktop
platform.

Meeting the Community. As the biggest KDE community event, aKademy is
a great place for meeting the people who make your favourite desktop. If you
are already part of the community and want to meet old friends, if you are a
newcomer and want to get in contact with the people you only knew by email
before or if you are from an organization interested in KDE and would like to
know who are the people behind this project, come to this year's aKademy.

In short, if you want to take part in shaping the future of the free desktop, aKademy
2006 is the place to be.

Participate

Members of Related Projects: Members of other desktop-related
projects,
standardization efforts or organizations working with KDE are welcome to join
the event and contribute their part of the future desktop.

Industry Partners: ISVs interested in improving KDE integration,
companies who have migrated or are considering migrating to KDE,
partners engaged in projects to enhance the Free Desktop, and those who are interested
in learning how the future KDE will provide an even better integrated enterprise solution.

Other Interested Parties: People or organizations interested in how
KDE works, what is planned for the future, and those interested in getting to
know the people behind the
desktop have a great opportunity at aKademy to meet, discuss, share ideas and
more.